We will use these technologies to their full potential, I promise. We have no choice. They will be embedded into every experience we have every day by a thousand companies looking to make money (and improve our lives). Try avoiding the internet for a day and you’ll see what I mean. The addictive behavior has nothing to do with the technologies (just like alcoholism has nothing to do with ethanol) and everything to do with our social constructs and problems. Try reading Gabor Mate’s “In the realm of hungry ghosts”.